Month: February 2017

Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills

February 8, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dave Winsborough and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…

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Marketing 4.0: A book review by Bob Morris

February 7, 2017

Marketing 4.0 Moving from Traditional to Digital Philip Kotler with Hermawan Kartajaya and Iwan Setiawan John Wiley & Sons (Dec ember 2016) How “convergence marketing” can create or increase demand among those whose preferences must be accommodated I have read…

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The dark side of transparency

February 7, 2017

  Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Julian Birkinshaw and Dan Cable for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which they suggest that executives need to get smarter about when to open up…

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An executive’s guide to machine learning

February 6, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Dorian Pyle and Cristina San Jose for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They explain why machine learning is no longer the preserve of artificial-intelligence researchers and born-digital…

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When Networking, Be Yourself

February 6, 2017

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * It seems like the right approach to networking: Figure out…

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The Republican Fausts

February 5, 2017

Over the years, I have relied on a few journalists to help me navigate my way through the forces and events that resemble a fog in everyday life. David Brooks is one of them. His mind reminds me of a Swiss…

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The importance of knowledge transfers

February 5, 2017

The results of the major research studies on employee satisfaction that I am aware of indicate that feeling appreciated is ranked at or near the top in terms of what is most important. Another is professional development. Most organizations claim…

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“What Is a Paradigm Shift?”

February 4, 2017

During a lecture at a European graduate school of business (August 2002), Georgia Agamben: “This title ‘What is a Paradigm?’ seems to suggest that my presentation will focus on epistemological and methodological questions. I do not feel at all it…

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Simon Sinek on purpose-driven collaboration

February 4, 2017

In Together Is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration, published by Portfolio/Penguin Random House (September 2016), Simon Sinek offers some excellent advice on how to follow this African proverb: “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want…

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Geoffrey Colon on “Disruptive Marketing”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

February 3, 2017

Geoffrey Colon is the voice at the intersection of marketing, tech, and popular culture. Thinking is his commodity. DJ, data punk, podcaster and author, Geoffrey is a Communications Designer at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, for Microsoft search advertising (Bing Ads).…

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